The bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott(
)18
editions published
between
1995
and
2017
in
English
and held by
1,651 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This new edition of The Bride of Lammermoor restores the action to 1703, before the Union of Scotland and England in 1707
rather than after it, which is where Scott's revisions of 1830 placed it. At last the sense of instability and of impermanence
which permeates the novel makes sense, for what was to come in the impending revolution. Love is doomed in this the most famous
of Scott's plots. Edgar Ravenswood and Lucy Ashton are destroyed not just by the opposing political and religious allegiances
of their families, but by the pervasive drive for power in a state where only power guarantees the ownership of real property.
Yet the politics are only an aspect of a predetermining fate, seen in the symbols of the bull, the tower, the violated maiden,
the raven, in the image of the revenging ancestor, in the traditional prophecies and in the second sight of the village witches.
There is only safety in Lucy's contemptus mundi, seen in her song, "Look thou not on Beauty's charming", and when she commits
herself to Edgar she is lost

A legend of the wars of Montrose by Walter Scott(
)12
editions published
between
1995
and
2017
in
English
and held by
1,533 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
""I think this fellow Dalgetty is one of those horse-leeches, whose appetite for blood being only sharpened by what he has
sucked in foreign countries, he is now returned to batten upon that of his own." Such is one character's view of the Scottish
mercenary of the seventeenth century. Yet there is in Dugald Dalgetty's professional ethic, his blundering Latin, his loving
care of his horse, and his own self-absorption, more genuine humanity than in the political and religious principles of Royalists
and Covenanters alike. And the picture which emerges is not of violence imported into Scotland from Germany but of a country
destroyed by uncompromising religious hatred, political bigotry, tribal feud and personal enmity. A Legend of the Wars of
Montrose centres on one episode in the most bloody of Scotland's civil wars, Montrose's campaign for King Charles I in 1644-45;
it is a short and savage tale."--BOOK JACKET

Kenilworth. With a port, of the author, pictures, of contemporary scenes and drawings reproduced from early editions together
with an introd. and captions by Walter Scott(
Book
)22
editions published
between
1952
and
2017
in
English
and held by
715 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The tragic story of the secret marriage of Amy Robsart to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, favourite and potential consort
of the Queen, is imbued with the drama of Tudor England, its exuberance of spirit, vigor of language, violence and treachery,
ostentation and gaiety, shifts and stratagems, and above all, its pervading sense of transience. Steeped in and engrossed
by historic England, Scott relished the opportunity to create a pageant of Elizabethan life. From the swashbuckling Lambourne
to the Machiavellian Varney, from the vacillating Leicester to Amy and the Queen herself, Scott grasps something of the passions
of Marlowe, the histrionics of Kyd and the cynicism of Marston. Kenilworth comes as close to the theatrical and the melodramatic
as Rob Roy or The Bride of Lammermoor, and Scott's sheer zest in writing is there for any reader to enjoy

The siege of Malta and Bizarro by Walter Scott(
)6
editions published
between
2008
and
2017
in
English
and held by
293 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"The Siege of Malta and Bizarro are Scott's final works, written in Malta and Italy at the end of 1831 and the beginning of
1832. Although extracts from The Siege of Malta have been published, this is the first complete edition. Bizarro has not been
available in print until now." "The Siege of Malta begins as a novel but ends as a historical account of the extraordinary
defence of Malta by the Order of St John of Jerusalem and their Maltese helpers against much larger Muslim forces. It is an
epic tale of endurance, resulting in inevitable defeat for some of the Knights, and for the rest, in the most hard-won of
victories, setting the scene for the subsequent development of the Maltese nation." "In the novella Bizarro Scott takes up
the story of a notorious Calabrian brigand of the early nineteenth century. Scott's fictionalised account draws on his experience
of visiting Naples and its surroundings and his earlier knowledge of Neapolitan history to tell a tale of passion, murder
and revenge with a level of violence rarely seen in his earlier work. Though incomplete, Bizarro shows Scott had not lost
his power to tell a good story in this, his very last piece of fiction."--Jacket

Reading Wordsworth by J. H Alexander(
Book
)15
editions published
between
1987
and
2017
in
English
and held by
268 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

Anne of Geierstein by Walter Scott(
Book
)8
editions published
between
2000
and
2017
in
English
and held by
268 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Anne of Geierstein (1829) is set in Central Europe in the fifteenth century, but it is a remarkably modern novel, for the
central issues are the political instability and violence that arise from the mix of peoples and the fluidity of European
boundaries." "With Anne of Geierstein Scott concludes the unfinished historical business of Quentin Durward, working on a
larger canvas with broader brush-strokes and generally with more sombre colours. The novel illustrates the darkening of Scott's
historical vision in the final part of his career." "This new edition is based upon the first edition but is corrected by
recovering from the manuscript about 2000 readings lost in some cases by misreadings of what Scott had written, but in many
others from the assumption that those who processed Scott's text knew better than he did. This is the first modern critical
edition of what was in its day a remarkably successful novel."--BOOK JACKET

Tales of a grandfather : the history of France (second series) by Walter Scott(
Book
)4
editions published
in
1996
in
English
and held by
244 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Scott drew on standard sources, but the interpretation of the material and the historical vision are his own. Modern readers
will be especially engaged by his interpretation of the character of Joan of Arc. Readers will also be interested to compare
Scott's treatment of history and its leading figures with his novels set in the same period and country, namely, Quentin Durward
and Anne of Geierstein

Quentin Durward by Walter Scott(
Book
)10
editions published
between
2000
and
2017
in
English
and held by
227 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Quentin Durward is a young Scotsman seeking fame and fortune in the France of Louis XI in the fifteenth century. He knows
little and understands less, but Scott represents his ignorance and naivete as useful to 'the most sagacious prince in Europe'
who needs servants motivated solely by the desire for coin and credit and lacking any interest in France which would interfere
with the execution of his political aims. In Quentin Durward Scott studies the first modern state in the process of destroying
the European feudal system." "By far the most important of Scott's sources for Quentin Durward is the splendid Memoirs of
Philippe de Comines. Comines, who has more than a walk-on role in the novel itself, was trusted councillor of Charles the
Bold of Burgundy until 1472, when Louis XI persuaded him to enter his service. Scott's contrasting portraits of Louis and
Charles, crafty king and fiery duke, essentially derives from Comines, whose memoirs are generally regarded as the first example
of modern analytical history rather than chronicle. But it is as a story that Quentin Durward succeeds, and it is one of Scott's
most absorbing tales."--BOOK JACKET

Count Robert of Paris by Walter Scott(
Book
)9
editions published
between
2006
and
2017
in
English
and held by
202 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Count Robert of Paris goes further back in time than any other of Scott's novels, to witness the uneasy alliance between
the Byzantine empire and the ambitious western leaders of the First Crusade at the end of the eleventh century. The characters
in this narrative range from an orang-utan to the historian Anna Comnena, who in the climactic scene encounters in single
combat Brenhilda of Aspramonte, the warrior wife of Count Robert, pregnant with his child." "Condemned by Scott's printer
as 'altogether a failure', Count Robert of Paris was prepared for publication by his son-in-law J. G. Lockhart and his publisher
Robert Cadell. The process involved substantial cutting and re-writing, much of it quite unnecessary. What appeared was a
bowdlerised, tamed and tidied version of what Scott had written and dictated. Scott's last full-length novel challenged the
susceptibilities of his readers more directly than any other, and in that lay its fault in the eyes of the lesser men who
condemned it. This edition is the first to have returned to the surviving portion of the manuscript and the extensive proofs."--BOOK
JACKET

Castle dangerous by Walter Scott(
Book
)10
editions published
between
2005
and
2017
in
English
and held by
198 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Set in 1306 during the Wars of Independence, English heiress Lady Augusta de Berkely has promised to marry Sir John de Walton
if he can defend the strategically vital Castle of Douglas against Robert the Bruce and Sir James Douglas for a year and a
day

The tavern sages : selections from the Noctes Ambrosianae by John Wilson(
Book
)11
editions published
in
1992
in
English
and held by
153 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
From 1822 until 1835 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine carried the series of seventy-one largely imaginary conversations, set
in William Ambrose's Edinburgh taverns, and hence called the Noctes Ambrosianae (Ambrosian Nights, or Nights at Ambrose's).
The cahracters, including versions of Byron, James Hogg, and Thomas de Quincey, discuss a wide range of subjects with endless
verve: they are uninhibited, frequently scurrilous, often imaginative and extremely funny. This new selection includes four
complete noctes, one complete scene, and twenty-four brief extracts. The main authors are John Gibson Lockhart, William Maginn,
and John Wilson. Among the host of topics covered are the contemporaneous literary, artistic and political scenes, the 1822
visit of George IV to Edinburgh, swimming in the Firth of Forth, and gargantuan feastings and potations. The Noctes are one
of the major achievements of the Romantic period, fit companions to Byron's Don Juan. Often densely allusive, they need generous
annotation for the modern reader. This selection is the first to provide comprehensive explanatory notes. Those who open this
volume can be assured of a unique experience: much instruction, some indignation, and a great deal of excellent entertainment!